A beta of Browserling has been announced. This
cross-browser testing tool runs inside your browser and is built on
top of StackVM. It supports Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera and
versions 5.5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of Internet Explorer. This is a
‘freemium’ product, meaning registered users get five minutes for
free as many times as they wish (although when your five minutes
are up, you go straight to the back of the queue of users waiting
to try Browserling.)

SAP Ordered to Cough up $1.3 Billion

SAP have been ordered to pay Oracle $1.3 billion for
copyright infringement. The trial concerned the TomorrowNow
discontinued business unit, which provided software maintenance and
support to Oracle customers, and downloaded Oracle software and
documents, reportedly infringing on 120 copyrights. SAP has
admitted liability for TomorrowNow’s infringement. Oracle
Co-President Safra Catz said of the outcome, “this is the largest
amount ever awarded for software piracy.” SAP have hinted they plan
to pursue post-trial motions and appeal, if necessary.

WTP Jetty Adapter Released

A native WTP adaptor for Jetty has been announced,
allowing users to leverage Eclipse and WTP to develop web
applications. The adapter consists of three plugins, a central one
containing pieces of the functionality, GUI components for
integrating with the Eclipse UI, and GUI components that provide a
wizard for generating a Jetty WebSocket.

Fuzzy Matching with FuzzyTable

FuzzyTable is a new parallel fuzzy-matching
database built over Hadoop. FuzzyTable can use any matching
algorithm to compare two items and return a similarity score. It
consists of a clustering process used to reduce the total search
space for each query, and a client-server system for performing
fuzzy matching in parallel across a Hadoop instance.